Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads

Welcome to WikiProject Australian Roads (WP:AURD)

Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of roads in Australia, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

First and foremost, just start editing – help us improve our articles! Here are some specific tasks you can do:
 * Add an infobox – article(s) • Random article (documentation • usage guidelines • blank code)
 * Expand a stub – article(s) • Random article (assessment criteria • sources • don't use roadgeek websites!)
 * Add a road junction list – article(s) • Random article talk page (RJL templates • WP:AURD guidelines • MOS guidelines)
 * Or convert a non-standard road junction list – article(s) • Random article talk page
 * Create a KML file – article(s) • Random article talk pages by state: ACT • NSW • NT • QLD • SA • TAS • VIC • WA (template/instructions)
 * Make a map – article(s) • Random article talk page (map colours and standards)
 * Check recent edits – Articles (only those with an infobox) • Talk pages (articles) • Talk pages (all namespaces)


 * Questions – don't be afraid to ask!
 * Ask general Wikipedia questions at the Teahouse (a friendly place for new editors) or Help desk (questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia)
 * For questions related to Australian road articles (or other pages), or at the specific article's talk page
 * Advice – see project conventions, standards, and guidelines regarding:
 * Article titles and disambiguation
 * Content and structure
 * Assessment criteria
 * Infobox guidelines
 * Map standards
 * Road junction list content, style, and examples
 * Resources – see our resources page for useful templates, maps, images, and sources.

Scope
WikiProject Australian Roads maintains and improves articles related to roads and road transportation in Australia, excluding topics related to vehicles. This scope covers all road-related articles within the Roads in Australia category structure, but only some of the articles within the wider Road transport in Australia category.



Article categories Project categories

Mission
The key points in the mission are explained below:
 * continually improve – There is no endpoint for the project, as roads are continually being built, upgraded and extended.
 * coverage – Here coverage refers to both quality of coverage and breadth of coverage.
 * Australian roads – The project mission is directly related to its scope. Articles outside of the project scope should collaborated on at a more appropriate venue.
 * on Wikipedia – Improving Wikipedia is the core reason for editing Wikipedia. All of the projects articles and edits should be consistent with Wikipedia's principles, policies and guidelines.
 * through collaboration – This refers to both inter-editor collaboration within this project (through discussion and shared resources), and inter-project colloboration (working with the other projects / task forces within WikiProject Highways and WikiProject Australia).

Goals
Long term goals are:
 * Improve articles and lists to featured status
 * Complete coverage of national and state highways and major roads (no important redlinks)

Medium term goals are:
 * Develop standards and guidelines for Australian road articles (to complement existing Wikipedia-wide guidelines)
 * Get at least one article to GA status for each state and mainland territory

Short term goals are:
 * Identify editors who may be interested and ask them to join
 * Tag and assess all articles within the project scope (see the projects Assessment page)
 * Develop project resources, to be listed and explained on the Resources page

To do
Here are some important tasks you can do to help WikiProject Australian Roads:

Participants
To join the project, add your username below, and a comment specifying your main areas of interest:

Project userboxes are available – see the Userbox page for details. You can also sign up to receive newsletter notifications.
 * 1)  – Public transportation networks in New South Wales
 * 2)  - Tramways in Victoria
 * 3)  - National public transport
 * 4)  – Queensland particularly South East Qld, Pacific Hwy and other parts of NSW
 * 5)  − Main interest is in freeway and dual carriageway development. A librarian at the University of Melbourne, so currently making the most of access to primary resources available from the library to provide accurate historical data.
 * 6)  – NSW, especially the Hunter Region
 * 7)  − NSW wherever I've been
 * 8)  - ACT/NSW and NT
 * 9)  − Project founder; Main focus is Perth and Western Australia
 * 10)  – photography; main focus is WA, latest work File:Graham farmer freeway tunnel east gnangarra.webm
 * 11)  - Primarily but not exclusively Vic
 * 12)  - Main Focus: Adelaide Roads, lesser extend SA.
 * 13)  - main focus is Sydney roads and a smaller extent to NSW roads as a whole. Contributed in wiki about Syd roads
 * 14)  − Main Focus: ACT/Sthn NSW, and to a lesser extent NSW as a whole.
 * 15) - Interested in Smaller  country roads, ones usually labelled "B###" or "C###" by the route numbering system.
 * 16)  - Primarily but not exclusively WA
 * 17)  – Primary focus is on roads in NSW/ACT, especially south of the Hunter region. Bridges, railway and river crossings are also of interest.
 * 18)  – various
 * 19)  – interested in extending the coverage of transport networks in SA (and to a lesser extent western Victoria and NSW)
 * 20)  - All Australian roads with a strong focus on Tasmania - particularly Hobart.
 * 21)  – Primary focus is on Sydney Metro roads
 * 22)  – Focus is on roads in Perth and Western Australia
 * 23)  - Primary focus is on metropolitan roads and routes throughout all of Melbourne (primarily on eastern and south eastern suburbs).
 * 24)  – Primary focus is on greater Melbourne's inner city streets and in particular bicycle infrastructure.
 * 25)  - Primary focus is Perth and surrounding suburbs within City of Perth council boundaries.
 * 26)  - NSW, particularly Sydney
 * 27)  - Australian road routes, roads across VIC/SA/NSW/ACT with a focus on Melbourne
 * 28)  - Victorian Road Routes, especially in the western suburbs
 * 29)  - primary focus is the roadside wildlife
 * 30)  - Mainly focusing on roads in Central West, Blue Mountains, and Sydney, New South Wales.
 * 31)  - Mostly VIC
 * 32)  - Interested in all major roads and route numbers, particularly the old numeric route numbering system and tourist drives in Victoria (and to a lesser extent NSW and other states and territories).

Assessment

 * Main page: WikiProject Australian Roads/Assessment

Of the pages overseen by WikiProject Australian Roads:

Resources

 * The Resources page lists many useful resources for improving articles, including templates, maps, images, references, important external links, and more.
 * See also the Article Standards page for advice on titles, content, infoboxes, maps, and road junction lists.
 * The Popular pages report list articles (with their assessed class/importance) by number of page views, showing which pages readers are most interested in.

Related projects
Parents: Road projects in other countries: Other Australian projects:
 * WikiProject Highways, specifically its Oceania Highways task force
 * WikiProject Australia
 * Canada Roads WikiProject
 * UK Roads WikiProject
 * U.S. Roads WikiProject
 * WikiProject Hong Kong Roads
 * WikiProject Indian roads
 * See Category:Australia-related WikiProjects

Embassy
Find Australian Roads projects on other Wikimedia Foundation sites!
 * Wikidata: d:WD:AURD